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Maui County

It's Moratorium Time!

Council member Jo Anne Johnson makes a new bid to stop all West Maui ag land development

As county officials and residents continue to thrash out giant, controversial development projects in South Maui, County Council member Jo Anne Johnson has proposed a new West Maui-only moratorium on land development...more
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Maui County

Nightmare on Front Street

The scary politics behind the fight over Lahaina Town's annual Halloween celebration

 Halloween is safe, at least for another year. Ghosts and goblins of all ages and races will again pack Front Street this Halloween. Friends will gather, music will play, and the festivity in Lahaina will last into the night.more
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Rob Report

The Elephant in the Room

Maui's dwindling water supply demands more than denial

Living in Haiku, where frequent trade wind showers paint the countryside in multi-hued shades of green, it's hard to comprehend the critical nature of our island water supplies.more

LC Watch

The List

Given that three-year old Lahaina nightclub Paradice Bluz went from having a squeaky clean LC record to a license revocation in just six months, it's worth reviewing the last year and a half...more

Coconut Wireless

The Week in Review

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 17: At roughly the same time retired Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez—who commanded all "coalition" forces in Iraq in late 2003 and 2004—describes the war as a "nightmare with no end in sight," the Associated Press breaks the news that the Pentagon seems to be proving Sanchez right by preparing to send eight more National Guard units to the desert next summer.more

News of the Weird

THIS IS MESSED UP: In the northern Albanian countryside, about 40 women still practice an ancient tradition as "sworn virgins,"? who are young females who renounce sex forever in exchange for being treated as men...more

Maui TIME

"Hawaii was selected for the National Science Foundation's huge Moholo project mainly through the energy of the new director of the university's Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, George P.more
Overheard this week
“I’m from Seattle. It’s great there—it’s really cool and the sky is always gray…”
-Guy at Fred’s Mexican Cantina in Kihei, June 10
Maui TIME
“A shell crashed ashore. In the dun-colored houses along Kahului’s waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage.”

-From “Dusk in Kahului,” Time Magazine, Dec. 28, 1941
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